Tile-mounting.



Patented Mar. 23, 1909.

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TILE-MOUNTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 23, 1909.

Applicationfiled. April 2, 1908. Serial No. 424,708.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER M. LANDIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tile-Mounting, of which the followis a specification.

My invention relates to tile mountings in which the tiles are built up in desired patterns adapted to be thereafter applied in re quired position as a finished design, and it consists in the improved construction hereafter described and specifically claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a tilemounting embodying my invention in preferred form; a portion of the tiles being re moved to show the supporting frame Work alone. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings the frame A is adapted for a tile mantel-piece, and it comprises a series of intersecting bars a a of teeshaped cross-section, the flange or head portions at a of which are all arranged in one and the same plane and serve to support the tiles C; said bars a a being made integral, as indicated, with flat marginal bars d d arranged to form a shallow tile-receiving box of the required shape, of which box the spaced bars a a form the bottom, with their reduced web portions a a projecting beyond the plane of the marginal bars (1 d. In this frame the tiles are arranged in the desired pattern upon the bottom bars a a, in contact with a suitable cement E which fills in the spaces between the bars a a and effectually locks the tiles to the latter by closely fitting pointed out in the under the tile-supporting flange or head portions a 0, thereof as indicated.

My invention provides a very simple and satisfactory tile mounting, the construction of which as specifically described and shown may be modified in detail as desired.

What I claim is 1. An integrally formed tile-work pattern frame comprising bars of substantially teeshaped cross-section the flange portions of which are united in a common plane with the web portions projecting on the same side of said plane, in combination with a layer of tiles built-up upon said united flange portions of the bars on the opposite side of said plane and a suitable cement filling in between the projecting web portions of said bars and serving to rigidly secure the tiles to the latter substantially as set forth. 2. An integrally formed tile-work pattern frame having fiat marginal bars forming a shallow tile-receiving box, and intersecting bottom-bars of substantially tee-shaped crosssection the flange portions of which unite with said marginal bars and the web portions of which all project on the same side beyond the plane of the latter, in combination with tiles arranged in said frame on the side opposite to said web portions and a suit able cement filling in between the projecting web portions of said bottom bars and serving to rigidly secure the tiles to the latter substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER M. LANDIS.

Witnesses:

D. M. STEWART, W. G. STEWART. 

